Killed LA Times column ends up online

After Los Angeles Times editors killed a column, it ended up on a local website, L.A. Observed.

The story was visited more than 18,000 times, and “many thousands” more subscribers had it sent to them electronically, Roderick said.

“A killed story used to be pretty much dead unless it got leaked to another newspaper,” Roderick said. “It’s very hard to keep secrets in a newsroom anymore.”

“They’re in the business of killing stories these days, not publishing them,” Steven den Beste, one of the Net's first bloggers, wrote on Instapundit.com. “But they no longer have the ability to close the gate because thousands of bloggers have dug tunnels under the fence.”

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